San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-06

as man OF science, TO understand ana
explain, If / can, anything out of the
common rather by things which do
know than by things which | do not
know" That, thought !, sounds very
clear and fair. at is important To re-
member" he continued, that Miss
Charlotte did spend great part of every
day and night OF three months in this
room"
"Yes, poor girl" said mother, that
she did"
And that on October "A she had gone
out for a long walk for the first time fol
many, many days. She was very tired
when she returned, and she went to bed.
Her mind was not weary, though he1
body was. and the open light of out
doors"
at was very dull day. said L.
"The open light" he continued,
stimulated the sense of sight, stirred
up and made as if it were alive the
stored images of the retina." AT this
DR.. Arnot looked up with a frown Of
inquiry Now, place this lamp and
shade where it usually stood on this
table, and sit one here where Miss
Charlotte usually sat; now look there
at that figure ON the carpet close to the
curtain where the light fall; does it not
look like dark, angry face with q
black beard, and does not the bottom Of
the green curtain, arranged SO, appear
like green turban upon the head"
We each went to the proper place to
look, and confessed that it was very
easy to see, where the light fell, a dark
face and green turban; Charlotte even
recollected-at least said she recollected
having noticed the appearance some
times when sitting with her mother.
Benigsen, triumphantly, 1T is so clear
Now, my next point" said he, "is more
difficult. Miss Charlotte's mother has
made the admission to me that her
daughter-she supposes from waiting
so closely ON her night and day so long,
and from rising up so often not more
than half awake to get her something
has frequently walked in sleep from one
part OF the room to another, or from her
own room to her mothers, without any
one but her mother knowing Of it; that
is nothing to be surprised at, for lady
she went to bed that afternoon there
was fire in her room, although there
was none when she woke up and when
her brother came in; she knows there
was a fire; because she remembers
burning paper in it before she went
into bed. Now, from the nature Of the
case, cannot make demonstration,
can only present suggestion; and first
l would beg to ask the young lady
question: Did she not wish afterward
that she had not burned that paper?-I
know not what the paper was"
Charlotte blushed, and looked down
in confusion and said, yes"
So" continued he, may not she,
wishing in her sleep, have got out Of the
bed and gone to the fire thinking to
take back her letter from the ashes, and
80 have burned her wrist on the hot bar
of the gratep Now, metaphysicians,"
said he, with another glance at DIR. Ar
not, have long noted that dream that
seems to involve long train Of events
sometimes occupies no more than
single moment OF actual time. For in
stance, pistol report that really awoke
the sleeper has been known to give him
an instantaneous yet apparently drawn
out series Of adventures, including
qnarrel, q challenge. and duel. The
burn on Miss Charlotte's wrist II sug-
gest it), acting through the sense Of
touch upon an aching cerebellum weary
limbs, and stimulated sight. produced
on the instant the story we have heard;
the coming in from wide, sandy plain
(she had been on the sands in the after
nOOn), the appearance of shining pal
ace (which this house may have when
the sun is on it), the blow on the head,
the face with green turban, the almost
Intellectual struggle of the weary limbs,
the hot iron to put out the eyes, and
the burn on the wrist. l would beg
you to note" continued he with more
particular inclination toward DR.. Ar
not, "as an important medical diagnOs-
speak; l take that and the brightness
dream as evidence of the truth of my
suggestion that the whole mystery is
due after the burn to the stimulation
of deranged sight"
He sat down. We looked at the pre-
sentiment of the face and the green tur-
ban on the floor, and then we looked at
each other.
"Um-m," said DIR. ArnOt to us in a
low tone, 1T seems very plausible. The
chief thing" he continued, raising his
voice, 81 find against your theory, DR..
Benigsen, is your own experience Of the
same things in actually at the same
hour, though at a great distance"
ITO that" said Benigsen, IL would
answer as famous doctor did in SIM
liar case, that the fact that my advent
ures befell then instead of at some
other time cannot affect this lady's case
one way or the other, any more than it
can affect the doctrine OF chances"
But, hang It'll" exclaimed Edward,
IF you should both have been thinking